50 PHYSICAL TRAINING 



matters as coffee-drinking and keeping late hours, 

 to more serious ones. 



So, you see, there is more in the physical train- 

 ing of boys than the mere giving of exercises and 

 the taking of measurements. The measurements 

 may or may not be valuable in themselves, but 

 the effect of measuring upon the children can be 

 made a strong and decided influence for good, an 

 influence for clean morality a hundred times more 

 effective than any number of "don't" class-room 

 lessons on the physiology of sex hygiene. It is 

 an "indirect" method for moral development, 

 and all the more effective because indirect. 



